Looking For ListingsWe are starting off 2015 with a total of six sales and one charter and we have several more sales and charters pending over the next few weeks. In 2014, we brokered thirty-one sales and six charters. Looking back over the past 33 years, we have averaged about 41 sales/charters per year.

It has been five and a half years since the official ending of the Great Recession caused by the subprime mortgage crisis and collapse of the housing bubble. While that recession is officially over, the recovery has been unbalanced, slow, uneven, uncertain, and has earned many more adjectives than can be printed here. Most of us still feel its effects.

Of the 3,785 barges and 12,730 vessels we currently track, 707 are tank barges with 32 inland and 35 ocean or coastal barges officially on the market for sale. Nine of the 32 inland barges are 10 years of age or less.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - No surprise to anyone, monthly average bunker prices continued their downward spiral in January, ranging from a decrease of 3.6% in Fujairah to 17.08% in Rotterdam. For the second month in a row, we had to lower our graph axis points as prices had literally fallen off our graph.

Friday, February 06, 2015 - The average U.S. offshore rig count for January 2015 was 53, down six from the 59 that were counted in December 2014 and down five from the 58 that were counted in January 2014.